Featured Reference Books
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Encyclopedia of Social Problems Provides as comprehensive an approach as possible to this multifaceted field, utilizing experts from numerous disciplines. These subject areas include anthropology, biology, business, chemistry, communications, criminal justice, demography, economics, education, environmental studies, geography, health, history, languages, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, and women's studies.Call Number: Online via Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)ISBN: 9781412941655Publication Date: 2008 -
International Handbook of Gender and Poverty In the interests of contextualising the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject. In this volume it is possible to study women's and men's experiences of gendered poverty with respect to the vast spectrum of intersecting issues.Call Number: HC79.P6 I526 2010ISBN: 9781848443341Publication Date: 2010 -
Poverty and Discrimination Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Call Number: HC110.P6 L36 2007ISBN: 9780691119540Publication Date: 2007 -
Poverty in the United States: An encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy follows the history of poverty in the United States, with an emphasis on the 20th century, and examines the evolvement of public policy and the impact of critical movements in social welfare such as the New Deal, the War on Poverty, and, more recently, the "end of welfare as we know it."
Encompassing the contributions of hundreds of experts, including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this resource provides a much broader level of information than previous, highly selective works.
With approximately 300 alphabetically organized topics, it covers topics and issues ranging from affirmative action to the Bracero Program, the Great Depression, living wage campaigns, to domestic abuse and unemployment. Other entries describe and analyze the definitions and explanations of poverty, the relationship of the welfare state to poverty, and the political responses by the poor, middle-class professionals, and the policy eliteCall Number: (REF) HC110.P6 P598 2004ISBN: 1576075974Publication Date: 2004 -
World Poverty: a reference handbook Contents/Summary: 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Aid, trade, debt, and the world's poor : some key controversies -- 3. Special U.S. issues -- 4. Chronology -- 5. Biographical sketches -- 6. Data and documents -- 7. Directory of organizations -- 8. Selected print and nonprint resources.Call Number: (REF) HC59.72.P6 G53 2004ISBN: 1851095527Publication Date: 2004
Suggested Databases
The following databases are good starting points for finding articles about Poverty. Some keywords you could use to begin your search are poverty and "United States"
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Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.
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America: History & LifeAmerica: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
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JSTORCOVID-19 Extended Access Resource (JSTOR has temporarily activated all archive and primary source collections until December 31.) JSTOR archives and provides access to archival and current issues of more than 2,400 scholarly journals across more than 60 academic disciplines (title lists) along with a growing number of open access ebooks. The UW-Milwaukee Libraries have acquired access to JSTOR collections Arts and Sciences I-VIII and the subject collections for Biological Sciences, Jewish Studies and Ireland.
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Sociological AbstractsThe Sociological Abstracts database abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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Urban Studies AbstractsThe bibliographic records in Urban Studies Abstracts bibliographic records cover urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline of urban studies.
Poverty Research Centers
These sites are excellent sources for information and further links.
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The Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis
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The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The Joint Center for Poverty Research of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago
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The Kentucky Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky
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The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan
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The RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center at the University of Iowa
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The West Coast Poverty Research Center at the University of Washington
See also,
- Poverty related links from the Internet Public Library.